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jake200.bsky.social @jake200.bsky.social · 3h

Who needs OH-tani when you have YES-avage?

www.wsj.com/sports/baseb...

The Rookie Pitcher Whose Meteoric Rise Has the Blue Jays on the Brink of a Title

Trey Yesavage began the season in Single-A. Six weeks ago he was still in the minors. On Wednesday, he delivered an all-time World Series performance.

www.wsj.com

jake200.bsky.social @jake200.bsky.social · 3h

Congress finally rears its head!
Now, the question is, will it matter? Or is Trump so firmly in control of the US government that he can also ignore whatever Congress dictates (in addition to ignoring judicial rulings)?

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: The Senate votes 50–46 to overturn Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada.

Four Republicans joined all Democrats in supporting the measure:

• Mitch McConnell
• Susan Collins
• Lisa Murkowski
• Rand Paul
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 12h

ONE. WIN. AWAY.

The Blue Jays take Game 5 in L.A. and head back to Toronto with the chance to claim their first World Series title since 1993.

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jake200.bsky.social @jake200.bsky.social · 3h

NOBODY will go to jail.
The Supreme Court will rule it's all OK.
Republicans will get reelected.
Billionaires will keep their tax cuts.

But he's absolutely right.

Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 11h

The current homepage of USDA. This is deeply and profoundly fucked up. And illegal. People need to go to jail.

jake200.bsky.social @jake200.bsky.social · 3h

It's getting REALLY wild!

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

jake200.bsky.social @jake200.bsky.social · 3h

USA's and Trump's (actually your unelected president, Stephen Miller's) "Night of the Long Knives". Look it up.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in:

- Los Angeles
- Phoenix
- Philadelphia
- Denver
- El Paso
- San Diego
- Seattle/Portland
- New Orleans

Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.

Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed.

Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino.

ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.

I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations.

I am hearing from both sides of this friction.

One senior DHS official tells me:

"ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?".

Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me:

"What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."

It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there.

Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results.

Official statement to
@FoxNews
via
@TriciaOhio
:

"While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country."
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 7h

New vocal stim is the Russian military lingo term obnulyenie which means friendly fire or when they execute one of their own for refusing to advance

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 7h

🤯 Movement of Russian missiles and drones during massive nighttime attack on Ukraine!

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jake200.bsky.social @jake200.bsky.social · 4h

Trump administration following IDF Zionist model.

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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 6h

❗️Partisans across Russia and temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine are burning 🇷🇺Russian means of communication

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jake200.bsky.social @jake200.bsky.social · 4h

Needed at home.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 6h

🇺🇦🙏 Already 17 injured, including a two-year-old girl. The number of injured as a result of the enemy attack on Zaporizhzhia is increasing, - OVA

The help of doctors was needed, including children aged 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 16 years old.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 6h

🔥 Partisans destroy enemy communication facilities on the territory: exclusive video from GUR

Cellular towers and communication equipment of local mobile operators continue to catch fire throughout Russia.

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jake200.bsky.social @jake200.bsky.social · 16h

So depressing.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 1d

New paper from me offering a holistic assessment of #SCOTUS's behavior on Trump-related emergency applications thus far:

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

TL;DR: The ultimate theme of the decisions is a majority bent on preserving *their* supremacy, as such—which is likely to only be self-defeating.

Abstract

This essay, prepared for the 2025 volume of The Supreme Court Review, seeks to provide a holistic account of the Supreme Court’s behavior on emergency applications relating to the Trump administration during its October 2024 Term.

As it demonstrates, the justices in those cases not only flouted the traditional standards for emergency relief; they exhibited repeated and sustained disrespect for both lower courts and Congress, enabling the executive branch to act in defiance of countless statutory restrictions; of settled constitutional understandings; and even of coercive district court mandates, all with dramatic (and deleterious) real-world consequences. As the Alien Enemies Act cases illustrate, the takeaway is not that the Court always ruled for President Trump; it's that it pushed back only when its mandates were on the line. The upshot is an attempt by the Supreme Court to preserve its supremacy, as such.

But such an approach, the essay concludes, is likely to be self-defeating. In the short term, it will encourage the executive branch to take ever-more-aggressive actions against both the people and the lower courts. And in the long term, it will not just further weaken Congress and the lower courts; it will further erode public confidence in the judiciary as an institution. Together, the increased power and momentum of the executive and the decreased credibility of (and respect for) the courts will make it that much harder for the Supreme Court to wield the supremacy it's protecting, even when it wants to.

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jake200.bsky.social @jake200.bsky.social · 16h

I'd rather have a replay of Billy Carter peeing at the side of the White House than watch these thieves stealing our money in plain sight while we can't seem to do anything about it.

jake200.bsky.social @jake200.bsky.social · 16h

Beauty queen mean girl! Trump's "type"

jake200.bsky.social @jake200.bsky.social · 17h

He doesn't wear a body camera.

A fish stinks from the head.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: The Kavanaugh stop, 50 days later. "What a sick world."

I asked Justice Brett Kavanaugh about his September 8 concurrence and the reality that has followed. Because he should be asked. He, unsurprisingly, did not respond.

Today, at Law Dork:

The Kavanaugh stop, 50 days later

"What a sick world." And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

www.lawdork.com

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jake200.bsky.social @jake200.bsky.social · 17h

Then you mean whatever a psycho like Stephen Miller says it is.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5d

The specifics of this are extremely bad. DHS is using a tariffs/product importation law to demand Meta unmask the identity of an Instagram account that posts about ICE enforcement actions. The page sells no merch. Lawyers call it "wildly outside the scope" of the law

www.404media.co/dhs-tries-to...

DHS Tries To Unmask Ice Spotting Instagram Account by Claiming It Imports Merchandise

There is no evidence the Instagram and Facebook account, called Montcowatch, sells anything. Lawyers from the ACLU say the move is "wildly outside the scope" of DHS' authority.

www.404media.co

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 6d

What a sick world.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 2d

This is a good illustration of what’s happening tonight re ICE leadership purge. Posts and caption identify this dude as ICE, but his uniform says Border Patrol. A LOT of the most aggro stuff that has been casually attributed to ICE (esp in Chicago and LA, and in Portland in 2020) was actually CBP.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agent: If you keep on following me, you're gonna get arrested.

Photographer: We're in a Sam's Club parking lot.

Progressive Witch @progressive-witch.bsky.social · 3d

🧵1/2 IG: mike_kelly_photography

“After an unsuccessful foot
chase outside a Sam's Club, this ICE agent became visibly angry with my presence documenting their activity, threatening to arrest me several times-as seen in this video” 🟥cont.🧵⤵️⤵️⤵️

▪️Chicago
video taken 9:25 a.m. 10/22/2025

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jake200.bsky.social @jake200.bsky.social · 22h

That's why the joint production agreements between Ukraine and many European countries, e.g. UK, Denmark, Sweden, are so important, not just now, but also for future European security.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The federal criminal justice system is being systematically dismantled and destroyed piece by piece and turned into a mob boss’s network of corrupt consiglieres and thugs, where good people simply doing their jobs are rooted out and eradicated.

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